specter − netfilter/iptables ULOG daemon
specter [options]
specter connects to the netlink device of the Linux kernel and reads messages from the netfilter that get queued with the iptables ULOG target. For this to work you have to compile the ULOG target into your kernel or load the respective module.
The received messages can be logged into files or into a mySQL or PostgreSQL database. Possibilities are based on dynamically loadable plugins, which are shipped along with specter package.
-d, --daemon
fork specter into background (start as daemon)
-c <filename>, --configfile <filename>
use <filename> as configuration file instead of /etc/specter.conf
-u <username>, --uid <username>
This option tells specter to drop its privileges and run as given user.
-g <group>, --gid <group>
This option tells specter to drop its privileges and run as given group.
-h, --help
show usage information
-V, --version
show version information and copyright
/etc/specter.conf
/var/log/specter.log
Apart from manuals there’s more documentation in /usr/doc/specter-1.4/.
This manual page was written by Joerg Wendland <joergland AT debian DOT org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Modified by Michal Kwiatkowski <ruby AT joker DOT linuxstuff DOT pl> for specter.